Jim Ottaviani

• Oct-2001
• / General Fiction
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The first of its kind, Two-Fisted Science is a Xeric Award-winning and Eisner nominated original trade paperback featuring true stories from the history of science. From Galileo to Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman, you'll be amazed how the personaliti...

• Oct-2005
• / Science Fiction
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• The Wild West provided the setting for some famous battles, but the gunfight at O.K. Corral doesn't hold a candle to the Bone Wars. Following the Civil War, the (Re-)United States turned its attention to the unexplored territories between th...

• Jul-2007
• / General Fiction
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• Levitation tells the story of the most dazzling gravity-defying illusion ever performed on stage, and features a cast of characters that seems almost too good to be true: John Neville Maskelyne, the very proper scientist-magician and the tri...

• Jul-2007
• / General Fiction
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• Psychologists know best, of course, and in the 1950s they warned parents about the dangers of too much love. Besides, what was “love” anyway? Just a convenient name for children seeking food and adults seeking sex. It took an outsider sc...

• May-2009
• / Graphic Novel
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Graphic novel fictionalized retelling of the moon landing celebrating the upcoming fiftieth anniversary!In T-Minus the exciting story of two world superpowers racing to land a man on the moon is depicted through compelling comics artwork, taking read...

• Aug-2009
• / General Fiction
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• Einstein looked up to him, the Nazis tried to abduct him, his institute inCopenhagen hosted just about every Nobel prize winner in physics you can name(and then some), and Winston Churchill considered him a dangerous, dangerousman. His frien...

• Oct-2009
• / General Fiction
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The Xeric Award-winning graphic novel is back in print, in a new edition! From Galileo to Isaac Newton to Richard Feynman, you'll be amazed how the personalities of the scientists who shaped our world shaped their lives and discoveries. Some are seri...

• Dec-2009
• / General Fiction
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This original graphic novel features famous women scientists including Marie Curie, Emmy Noether, Lise Meitner, Rosalind Franklin, Barbara McClintock, Birute Galdikas, and Hedy Lamarr. The stories offer a human context often missing when we learn abo...

• May-2013
• / Graphic Novel
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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Richard Feynman: physicist . . . Nobel winner . . . bestselling author . . . safe-cracker.

In this substantial graphic novel biography, First Second presents the larger-than-life exploits of Nobel-winning q...

• Sep-2013
• / General Fiction
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So, you've always wanted to learn how to build an atomic bomb? You're in luck: Jim Ottaviani is not only a comics writer...he also has a master's degree in nuclear engineering! But even though it's not a complete do-it-yourself manual (assembly requi...

• Jul-2019
• / General Fiction
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Following their New York Times-bestselling graphic novel Feynman, Jim Ottaviani and Leland Myrick deliver a gripping biography of Stephen Hawking, one of the most important scientists of our time.

From his early days at the St Albans School ...

• Feb-2020
• / General Fiction
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In the graphic novel Astronauts: Women on the Final Frontier, Jim Ottaviani and illustrator Maris Wicks capture the great humor and incredible drive of Mary Cleave, Valentina Tereshkova, and the first women in space.

The U.S. may have put th...

• Nov-2022
• / Graphic Novel
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In Einstein, writer Jim Ottaviani and artist Jerel Dye take us behind the veneer of Einstein’s celebrity, painting a complex and intimate portrait of the world’s most well-known scientist.E = mc² A world-changing equation and a wild ...